Great engineers, great technology, great markets, great potential, but something's missing.
Great engineers, great technology, great markets, great potential, but something's missing.
Handheld and mobile computing business is an interesting market to play in. Good engineers with great ideas. There is an ongoing commitment to improve the product development cycle with regard to quality and time to market. It's great seeing our products being adopted by key customers, and even better to have those customers return to us for their next generation product needs. Great cross-collaboration between same-site project teams. A good mix of disciplines and career backgrounds provides well rounded development teams.
Employees are encouraged to ask tough questions and demand honest answers, and management generally does its best to provide those answers. Remarkably little corporate B.S. as compared to other companies I have worked at.
Santa Clara is a newcomer in a business that the Austin (ex-Intel) site has plenty of experience, but Santa Clara often downplays or outright ignores the expertise and experience of the Austin site. Too much micromanagement, starting at the top.
Before we make an offer to hire someone, the offer must first be personally approved by the CEO. This is fine in a small startup, but is a questionable practice in a company employing over 5000 people. I see some of my peers working insane overtime, which again might make sense in a pre-IPO startup, but given the stock performance level, I just don't understand the benefit of making such sacrifices.
Encourage your people to do what they do best, and then enable them to do it.
Don't micromanage.
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Marvell Technology Interview Experiences
Staff Engineer
Phone Interview: The person who interviewed me on the phone was very smart. His questions were well balanced and highly technical, including very basic and very advanced questions. I was very very impressed by the phone interview. I did it very well.
Design Verification Engineer
Phone interview and then an onsite interview. 6 people interviewed me onsite Then the recruiter got back to me. They tried to approve my offer and had some tough time. Finally they were able to do it
Software Applications Engineer
Had a phone interview with manager to go over my resume and then another phone interview for technical interview. The onsite interview was a round table interview where all the team members shoot their questions. It was not that difficult to face th
Staff Engineer
Austin, TexasOctober 1, 2010Phone Interview: The person who interviewed me on the phone was very smart. His questions were well balanced and highly technical, including very basic and very advanced questions. I was very very impressed by the phone interview. I did it very well.
Design Verification Engineer
Austin, TexasJuly 1, 2011Phone interview and then an onsite interview. 6 people interviewed me onsite Then the recruiter got back to me. They tried to approve my offer and had some tough time. Finally they were able to do it
Software Applications Engineer
Austin, TexasNovember 1, 2012Had a phone interview with manager to go over my resume and then another phone interview for technical interview. The onsite interview was a round table interview where all the team members shoot their questions. It was not that difficult to face th
